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  • Lakers, Clippers Ready to Launch

    Steve Finley, Observer Sports Reporter|Oct 18, 2018

    Both teams are looking for improvement from last year. If the Clippers can stay healthy, they will surprise a lot of people. They were 5-0 in the preseason although they played overseas teams like the Sydney Kings and the Macabbi Haifa. They did have wins over the Lakers, Minnesota and Denver. Three of the Clippers starting five are set but the other two are still up in the air. Coach Doc Rivers will begin his starting five with guard Patrick Beverly, forward Danilo Gallinari and forward Tobias...

  • Bruins, Trojans Hope to Improve

    Steve Finley, Sports Reporter|Sep 20, 2018

    The two major college football teams in Los Angeles have only one victory going into the fourth week of the season and may need to make changes if they hope to get a bowl berth. The UCLA Bruins are winless in their first three games, and the Trojans have won only one of three contests. The Trojans play their next four out of five games at home. Home-field advantage may be what the Trojans need to get back on the winning track. If the Trojans lose on Friday, they may need to change quarterbacks....

  • Bruins, Trojans both Open at Home

    Steve Finley, Sports Reporter|Aug 30, 2018

    Bruins, Trojans both Open at HThe Bruins and Trojans both kick-off their 2018 football seasons Sept. 1 at home, when USC plays UNLV at 1 p.m. at the Coliseum and UCLA facing University of Cincinnati at the Rose Bowl at 4 p.m. Both teams will have new quarterbacks and UCLA will have a new head coach, Chip Kelly. The Bruins, who are coming off a disappointing 6-7 season, are facing another major hurdle. They recently suspended six players for the game against Cincinnati for “unspecified v...

  • Tough Road for LA Sparks

    Steve Finley, Sports Reporter|Aug 2, 2018

    Its crunch time for the Los Angeles Sparks of the WNBA. The Sparks are currently in a tie with Phoenix and nine teams are battling for eight playoff spots. Seattle is on top, Atlanta is second and Minnesota is in third place. The Sparks are knotted with Phoenix. Dallas and Washington were tied for fifth. One of the reasons that the Sparks are in fourth place is that two of their best players, defensive specialist Alana Beard and All-Star forward Nneka Ogwumike, have not played in two weeks....

  • Sparks Need Wins to Stay Close to the Top of the WNBA

    Steve Finley, Sports Reporter|Jul 19, 2018

    The Los Angeles Sparks of the Women's National Basketball Association have 11 games left in the regular season and all of the games are extremely important. With four games separating the top eight teams in the league playoffs seeding will be determined by what happens during the next month. At press time Seattle is in first place with a record of 16-6, followed by Phoenix at 15-8, the Sparks are 14-9, Dallas and Washington are 13-9, Atlanta is 12-9 and Connecticut and last years' champion,...

  • First place Sparks play two home games on Sunday and Tuesday

    Steve Finley, Sports Reporter|Jun 21, 2018

    The Los Angeles Sparks continue to play some of the best basketball in the WNBA. At press time they were in first place with a record of 8-2 followed by the Phoenix Mercury at 10-3 and the Seattle Storm is holding down the third spot in the 12 team league with a record of 8-3. On Friday, June 22, Los Angeles travels to Dallas before they return home to the Staples Center on Sunday for a 2 p.m. game against the New York Liberty. On Tuesday they stay at home to face Dallas again at 7:30 p.m. Now...

  • Storm Coming For Sparks

    Steve Finley, Sports Reporter|Jun 7, 2018

    The Los Angeles Sparks of the WNBA play three important home games within the next week starting tonight (Thursday) when they battle Seattle at Staples Center at 7:30 p.m. The 4-1 Sparks are currently in second place in the 12-team WNBA league and Seattle is in third place with a record of 5-2. Both teams have a combination of veteran and younger players that give them the best opportunity to create good winning chemistry. The Sparks have two of the best players in the WNBA in Candace Parker...

  • No. 2 UCLA Softball Will Host Los Angeles Regional

    Steve Finley, Sports Reporter|May 17, 2018

    The No. 2 UCLA softball team will start the NCAA Tournament on Friday at home when they play Sacramento State inside Easton Stadium at 8 p.m. in the Los Angeles Regional. The Bruins are 50-4 overall and they placed second in the Pac-12 behind No. 1 Oregon with a 20-4 record. The Bruins are coming off of a tough three game series last weekend against Arizona State. They loss the first game of the series 3-0 but they rebounded and won the last two games 5-1 and 2-1. The 2-1 victory last Saturday...

  • Long Beach State 49ers Strike Gold in College Volleyball

    Steve Finley, Sports Reporter|May 10, 2018

    Long Beach State University and UCLA played one of the most electrifying men’s volleyball games in NCAA history last Saturday inside UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion in front of a crowd of 7,248. The Beach won the match 3 sets to 2. The NCAA championship match featured 33 tie scores and 12 lead changes. Long Beach was led by Kyle Ensing’s 20 kills, TJ DeFalco’s 18 kills and Josh Tuaniga’s 46 assists and five digs. Tuaniga, who is from Long Beach, was named the tournaments’ Most Valuable Player. His...

  • 21 Undrafted Free Agents To Join LA Chargers

    Steve Finley, Sports Reporter|May 3, 2018

    After concluding the 2018 NFL Draft, the LA Chargers agreed to terms with 21 undrafted free agents: Tony Brown | Alabama | DB | 6-0 | 198 | Beaumont, Texas A two-year starter in football and a track All-American … provided leadership on defense and special teams for the Crimson Tide enroute to a National Championship in 2017 … as a senior, the defensive back provided 31 tackles, a tackle for loss, two passes defensed and a quarterback hurry before picking off his first pass of the season in the...

  • Trojans Sweep Bruins for First Time in Eight Years

    Steve Finley, Sports Reporter|May 3, 2018

    The USC track and teams showed why they are two of the best teams in the nation last Sunday at UCLA. The Trojan men beat the Bruins 103-53 and the USC women beat the UCLA women 86-77. It was the first time in eight years the Trojans have swept the Bruins at UCLA. The Trojans were so dominant in the sprints it was hard to keep up with all the stars and fast runners. The fast running events started on the track with the women’s 4x100 meter relay, which was won by the USC team of Anglerne A...

  • Local College Players Featured in NFL Draft

    Steve Finley, Sports Reporter|Apr 26, 2018

    For the first time in many years UCLA and USC will have two players taken in the top two or three spots in the National Football League draft today (Thursday). USC’s Sam Darnold and UCLA’s Josh Rosen are two of the top quarterbacks in the draft. No one can predict what the teams will do, but if the draft experts are correct, Darnold will be the No. 1 pick, and will go to the Cleveland Browns. The Browns need a franchise quarterback who is smart, durable, and can lead them out of cellar. The Bro...

  • UCLA Sports' Takes Center Stage This Weekend

    Steve Finley, Sports Reporter|Apr 19, 2018

    If you are a college sports fan UCLA is the place to be this weekend. The baseball, football and softball teams will all be in action at home starting Friday and continuing through Sunday. The baseball team will face cross-town rival USC, the football team will play their Spring Game and the softball team will battle Washington. The baseball team will start their three game series against USC on Friday night at 7 p.m. at Jackie Robinson Stadium. They have a 4 p.m. game against the Trojans on...

  • Lakers and Clippers Are Out Of NBA Playoffs

    Steve Finley, Sports Reporter|Apr 12, 2018

    For the first time in recent memory, both the Clippers and the Lakers will start their summer vacations early. The Clippers will miss the playoffs for the first time in seven years, although they will finish the season with a winning record. The Lakers will miss the playoffs for the fifth straight year. So for the Los Angeles professional basketball fan this feels different. With so many other sports in Los Angeles it's not so bad but it still hurts. It's like the NBA All-Star game being played...

  • Clippers Hope for a Miracle, Lakers Look To Be The Spoiler

    Steve Finley, Sports Reporter|Apr 5, 2018

    The NBA season for the Clippers and Lakers is about to end unless the Clippers can pull off a miracle. The NBA playoffs consist of 16 teams from two different conferences. Eight teams from the west and eight teams from the east will square off in the next few months to see who we be the 2017-18 NBA Champions. The Lakers have already been eliminated from the playoffs so it's up to the Clippers to try and have at least one NBA team in the post season. In order to accomplish that achievement they...

  • UCLA Softball Continues to Stay on Top

    Steve Finley, Sports Reporter|Mar 29, 2018

    What is one of the best kept sports secrets in Los Angeles? It's the UCLA Bruins softball team. They are currently 28-2 and ranked No. 4 in the nation. They are one of the best hitting teams in the nation and they have one of the best pitchers in the nation in Rachel Garcia. Last weekend they swept Oregon State in a three game series. In the last game of the series on Monday Selina Ta'amilo pitched a complete game and their offence was led by the hitting of Aaliyah Jordan, Garcia and Kinsley...

  • Lady Bruins Are The Last Team Standing

    Steve Finley, Sports Reporter|Mar 22, 2018

    The UCLA women's basketball team is the last team from Southern California to survive the madness in March. Their two wins last Saturday and Monday have put them in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA women's tournament for the third straight year. Next up for the 26-7 Bruins is a date with 28-6 Texas in the Kansas City Regional at 6 p.m. on Friday. To reach the regionals the Bruins had to win two games at home. Last Saturday they beat American University 71-60 and Monday they destroyed Creighton 86-64....

  • Clippers Stay in The Race and Lakers are Improving

    Steve Finley, Sports Reporter|Mar 15, 2018

    The NBA in Los Angeles is getting interesting. Despite not having any super stars in town the Clippers are battling for a playoff position and the Lakers are starting to play winning and entertaining basketball. Last weekend LeBron James and Cleveland visited the Staples Center to play the Clippers on Friday and the Lakers on Sunday. Both of the Los Angeles teams beat the Cavaliers in convincing fashion and both teams are playing well without big name players in the lineups. "Guys are defiantly...

  • UCLA goes to the Senior Prom and USC Plays in the Junior Prom

    Steve Finley, Sports Reporter|Mar 15, 2018

    The NCAA is at it again. USC men’s basketball team takes second place in the Pac-12 regular season and second place in the one and done Pac-12 Tournament in Las Vegas last week and that’s not good enough to make the NCAA Tournament. The Trojans finished the regular season 23-11 despite losing one of their best players before the season started due to an FBI investigation. They played the season with several players in and out of the lineup because of injuries and they still advanced to the Pac...

  • UCLA and USC men's basketball need wins to reach Tournament

    Steve Finley, Sports Reporter|Mar 8, 2018

    It’s that time of the year. Its win are go home for a lot of teams and it’s no different for UCLA and USC men’s basketball. If both teams expect to make it to the 2018 NCAA Division I Tournament they need to win games in this week’s Pac-12 Tournament in Las Vegas. The tournament starts on Thursday for both teams. The No. 4 seeded Bruins will take on the winner of last Wednesdays’ game against California and Stanford at 12 p.m. and the No 2 seeded Trojans will play the winner of the Oregon an...

  • Lakers and Clippers look to make the NBA playoffs

    Steve Finley, Sports Reporter|Feb 22, 2018

    The all-star game is over and now it’s time for the 23-34 Lakers and 30-26 Clippers to go back to work. Both teams are hoping to make the playoffs but it still seems like a long shot for the Lakers who are in 11th place in the Western conference. The Clippers are tied for ninth position. Only eight teams from the East and West make the playoffs The next Laker game is at home on Friday at 7:30 p.m. against the Dallas Mavericks. Their next four games are on the road starting with their Saturday g...

  • Will the trades Help or Hurt the Clippers and Lakers?

    Steve Finley, Sports Reporter|Feb 15, 2018

    Professional athletes are traded all the time but when it happens most of the time it’s a shock to the players, families and fans. Unfortunately that is one of the things professional athletes have to deal with. They make a lot of money but on any given day they might have to leave one area of the country and go to another. Two Laker players, Jordan Clarkson and Larry Nance Jr. had to leave sunny southern California and go to cold Cleveland. Former Clipper Blake Griffin was traded to Detroit s...

  • Bruins versus Trojans play three times in four days

    Steve Finley, Sports Reporter|Feb 2, 2018

    The UCLA Bruins and the USC Trojans basketball teams will battle each other Friday, Saturday and Monday. The women will play Friday night and Monday night. The men will clash on Saturday afternoon. All three Pac-12 games will have league implications. The women’s game on Friday will start at 8 p.m. and will be played at Pauley Pavilion on the UCLA campus. Their Monday contest will be play at the Galen Center on the USC campus at 6 p.m. The men’s game will start at 3 p.m. and UCLA will be the...

  • Trojan and Bruin Men Flip-Flop Positions in Basketball

    Steve Finley, Sports Reporter|Jan 25, 2018

    At the beginning of the season the UCLA men were the surprise team of college basketball. An early season win over Kentucky in December was the highlight of a pre-season schedule that saw the Bruins win 11 out of their first 14 games. Now the Bruins are currently 13-7 overall and 4-4 in the Pac-12. At press time UCLA had lost three games in a row and on Saturday they face one of the hottest teams in the Pac-12 when the take on Stanford at home at 7:30 p.m. One of the main reasons for UCLA’s d...

  • UCLA, USC Men's And Women's Basketball Teams Compete in Pac-12

    Steve Finley, Sports Reporter|Jan 11, 2018

    Pac-12 basketball swings into high gear this weekend when UCLA and USC men’s and women’s basketball teams play important games. All four teams are competing for an opportunity to either win a regular season league championship, get a top seed in the Pac-12 Tournament and an invitation to the NCAA Tournament. UCLA men are currently in first place in the Pac-12 with a record of 3-1 and an overall record of 12-4. On Saturday, January 13, they play Colorado at home at 7:30 p.m. Next Thursday the...

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